Fungi & lichens – iBOL Europe

UKBOL

Kasia Fantoni — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:57:15 +0000

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Geographical region(s): United Kingdom
Ecosystem(s) coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non-insects), Chromista, Fungi and Lichens, Plants
Host institute(s): Natural History Museum of London
Timespan: 2022 – ongoing
Description: The UK Barcode of Life (UKBOL) project comprises a network of UK government agencies, biodiversity institutions and individual scientists engaged in DNA barcoding of the biota of the United Kingdom.

Kasia Fantoni — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:44:43 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Greece and surrounding regions
Ecosystem(s) coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non-insects), Fungi and Lichens, Plants
Host institute(s): Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Timespan: 2024 – ongoing
Description: GrBOL is a national network of various biodiversity institutions in Greece, coordinated by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. GrBOL partners provide their professional taxonomic expertise and existing infrastructure (collections/biobanks, databases, bioinformatics platforms and laboratories) for the comprehensive collection, recording, description and sequencing of animal, plant and fungal species in Greece. The sequences and metadata generated within GrBOL will be integrated into the global barcode reference database “BOLD”.

Gabriela Dankova — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 13:28:08 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Italy
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): All
Institute(s): Bringing together over 1,500 researchers belonging to 48 partner organisations (Universities and Research institutes) working on biodiversity topics.
Time span: Ongoing
Description: Builds a genetic/genomic platform that will also include DNA barcoding data from all the flora and fauna of Italy.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:56 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Turkey
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa
Host institute(s): Ankara University (Turkey)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: DNA barcoding and eDNA metabarcoding of terrestrial and aquatic species from microorganisms to mammals.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:55 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa, Protista, Others
Host institute(s): CETAF
Time span: Ongoing
Description: Provision of new mechanisms and tools to transfer taxonomic fundamental knowledge to other societal and scientific actors.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:43 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Norway, Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa
Host institute(s): NTNU University Museum (Norway)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: NorBOL primary goal is building barcode reference library of all multicellular species in Norway as well as education, dissemination to stakeholders and public outreach.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:42 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Norway, Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa, Protista
Host institute(s): Norwegian institute for nature research – NINA (Norway)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: NINA conducts a general monitoring of terrestrial insects in Norway since 2020, on behalf of the Norwegian Environmental Agency (https://www.miljodirektoratet.no/). As of 2021, the monitoring is limited to the ecosystems “Forest” and “Semi-natural land”.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:39 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Chordates, Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa
Time span: Ongoing
Description: iBOL is working to establish an earth observation system that will reveal species, their dynamics, and interactions using DNA barcoding.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:37 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Arthropods (insects), Arthropods (non insects), Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa
Host institute(s): IBIOM-CNR – Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies – Italian National Research Council (Italy)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: The institute has a long history in Bioenergetics and Biomembranes research at both national and international levels. Among the many scientific activities, molecular biodiversity constitutes one of the main research objectives. This includes the development of experimental methods using High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) technologies to implement DNA barcoding and metagenomics (amplicon-based and shotgun) approaches. Another research area relevant to the consortium regards the setup and the development of computational pipelines compatible with big data analyzes, database curation and building and data integration focused on barcoding studies and on Omics data in general.

iBOL Europe — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:08:31 +0000

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Geographical region(s): Trans boundary
Ecosystem coverage: Freshwater, Marine, Terrestrial
Taxonomic group(s): Plants, Fungi & lichens, Other metazoa, Protista, Others
Host institute(s): Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czechia)
Time span: Ongoing
Description: HoliSoils tackles gaps in knowledge on forest soil processes and aims to harmonise available soil monitoring information to support decision making towards climate and sustainability goals. HoliSoils identifies and tests novel soil management practices aiming to maintain diversity of organisms, mitigate climate change and sustain provision of various ecosystem services essential for human livelihoods and well being.